The trees in the backyard are showing a wide variety of colors. And our tupelo (blackgum) tree (Nyssa sylvatica) is once again a brilliant red and especially striking.
Category: Native Plants
A prairie with many a blossom
My friend, Jannine, and I recently enjoyed the Midwest Native Plant Conference at Dayton, Ohio. I learned a lot from presenters and other attendees. The conference concluded with field trips, and Jannine and I chose the 112-acre Huffman Prairie which is located on the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. I had hoped for blossoms and was not disappointed.
Monarch Waystation Tour this Saturday
I hope you’re planning to join our Wild Ones Monarch Waystation Garden Tour this Saturday.
Susan Durisek-Smith’s article in last Saturday’s Lexington Herald-Leader is a great source of information, and you can read more on the Lexington Wild Ones’ website.
I look forward to sharing our garden. I’ll also have some Cecropia moth caterpillars and, if they cooperate, a Pipevine butterfly or two. Hope you can join us!
Garden tour of Lexington Monarch Waystations
MONARCH WAYSTATION GARDEN TOUR
SATURDAY, JULY 11, 2015 – 10 to 5 – rain or shine
Includes 10 Lexington gardens
Tickets $10 – available at each of the following certified Monarch Waystations
Come and see how these gardeners have incorporated native plants into their landscapes to help Monarchs and other pollinators.
- 232 Castlewood Drive (Google map)
- Wild Ones’ Pollinator Garden @ Wellington Park (Google map)
- 224 Leawood Drive – This is our yard. I hope you’ll stop by to take a look and say hello. (Google map)
- St. Michael’s Church, 2025 Bellefonte Drive – please park on Libby Lane (Google map)
- 4 Richmond Avenue (Google map)
- Cardinal Hill Hospital, 2050 Versailles Road – please enter from Mason Headley Road (Google map)
- 124 Idle Hour Drive (Google map)
- Klausing Group, 1356 Cahill Drive (Google map)
- 571 Mitchell Avenue (Google map)
- 1721 Gettysburg Road (Google map)
For tour garden descriptions, visit the Lexington Wild Ones website.
I’d appreciate you sharing this with anyone else who might be interested.
A white milkweed???
I had no idea there was a native white milkweed (Asclepias variegata) until my friend, Patty Hornback, invited me to see the one blooming in her yard. She first saw these plants while camping at Land Between the Lakes in western Kentucky.
